Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [TLATOR] Second major update.

[Samium Gromoff]

At Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:18:41 -0400,
Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:28, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> 
> > PS:
> >     If somebody knows why the hell a GtkLabel packed into a GtkBox with
> >             gtk_box_pack_start(GtkBox, GtkWidget, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
> >  still ends up growing when a larger text is put inside, let me know, it`ll 
> > fix that
> >  annoying window jumping...
> 
> A label will requisition at least the size of the text inside it, so
> unless you're using something like GtkFixed it will be allocated the
> whole requisition.
> 
> If you want to limit the size of the text displayed, you have two
> options.  First, you can use a combination of GtkTable and GtkAlignment
> to get the exact layout percentage you want.
> 
> Or alternatively you can use the ellipsizing label widget that's
> floating around.  I have a copy in the Rhythmbox source that I've fixed
> a few bugs in, so you'll probably want to grab that.
> 
> Archive: address@hidden
> Location: http://arch.verbum.org/rhythmbox
> Revision: rhythmbox--mainline--1.0
> 
> And the file is:
> 
> lib/widgets/rb-ellipsizing-label.c

        Thank you, Colin! That was very useful.

regards, Samium Gromoff